Tablets in the classroom are no longer novel or a luxury item. In fact, tablets and other technology have become an invaluable item in a teacher’s tool chest, offering dedicated and inventive educators a whole new avenue to reach students and improve learning. As a school administrator or a decision-making teacher, you can appreciate the spiked levels of engagement these devices and apps provide for students.
3 Essential Apps to Fire up Your Classroom Tablets
As tablets are now firmly entrenched in the classroom, it is important to find apps that enhance the classroom experience for students, engaging them and propelling them toward greater absorption and processing of new materials and academic excellence. As you work with your teachers to find effective and inspiring apps, it might help to take a look at a few that fellow teachers appreciate.
Picsart Photo Editor
For your arts and science classes, photography often proves invaluable to the learning process. Your art teacher may ask students to use the classroom camera to take a photo and edit it to share with the class. Or perhaps your biology class takes a field trip and collects data via photographs. Whatever the case, the many free tools from Picsart Photo Editor can enhance any project. You can use the online version, or their free app!
TED
TEDTalks have become an educational and cultural phenomenon via several venues, such as YouTube and the TEDTalks website itself. You can corral all that collected wisdom and make it readily available to your information-hungry students with the TED app. TedTalks currently feature more than 3,500 videos that discuss history, technology and innovation, astronomy and the space program, marine sciences, bioengineering, art and music, and anything else you can imagine. Assign students a subject and let them choose a talk that interests them based on the topic and speaker. They can listen via their tablet and headphones before preparing a mini-report to ignite classroom engagement among peers and teachers.
TechSmith Camtasia Editor
Film and video work are useful tools in any discipline in which students record their findings and present them to peers and teachers. Your teachers can help students learn the finer points of using the classroom’s high-quality video camera to record important images, art projects, scientific processes and to actually create films and more before sending them off to the editing lab. Once it is time to prepare the piece to share with others, the TechSmith Camtasia Screen Recorder and Video Editor can help make it simple for students to upload video and audio and edit to their satisfaction.
The Most Engaging Apps Will Enhance the Tools You Have On Hand and Spark Excitement in Learning
At School Specialty, we understand the value of reaching your students where their interests are and that your educators need some reinforcements from time to time. With hardware like tablets and assistive peripheral devices, you can improve the process for everyone by searching for apps that complement those tools and elevate their power in reaching your students and making an impact. If you need help finding core equipment, contact us.
